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Vitaliy Lomakin, Assistant Professor (group head) Vitaliy Lomakin received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kharkov National University (Ukraine) in 1996 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University (Israel) in 2003. From 1997 to 2002 he was a Teaching Assistant and Instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Currently he holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego. His research interests include computational Electromagnetics, computational Micromagnetics/Nanomagnetics, the analysis of microwave phenomena on structured surfaces, the analysis of optical phenomena in photonic nanostructures, the analysis of magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures. Vitaliy Lomakin teaches several graduate and undergraduate courses on various aspects of Electromagnetics and Optics in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. E-mail: vitaliy@ece.ucsd.edu Office: EBU 1, room 3201 Phone: 858 822 4726 Personal webpage: http://cem01.ucsd.edu/~vitaliy/ |
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Shaojing Li, Ph.D. student and Research Assistant Shaojing Li received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University, China, in 2007. He joined Prof. Lomakin's group at the University of California San Diego after his graduation and currently is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant. His research interests are in fast algorithm for Electromagnetics and Micromagnetics/Nanomagnetics, parallel computing, and the study of magnetic nanostructures. E-mail: sli@ucsd.edu Office: EBU 1, room 3507 Phone: 858 534 4479 Personal webpage: http://cem01.ucsd.edu/~shaojing/ |
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Derek Van Orden, Ph.D. student and Research Assistant Derek Van Orden received his B.S. in applied physics from Rice University in 2004, and in 2005 came to UCSD to pursue his Ph.D. degree. His research interests include the computational study of electromagnetic wave propagation in nanoscale structures, including plasmonic and resonant structures and their interaction with metal-dielectric surfaces. Derek Van Orden conducts discussion sessions in ECE107 (Electromagnetism) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. E-mail: derekvanorden@gmail.com Office: EBU 1, room 3507 Phone: 858 534 4479 Personal webpage: http://cem01.ucsd.edu/~derek/ |


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Computational Electromagnetics Group |
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego |


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Liang Feng, Ph.D. student and Research Assistant (Co-advised by Prof. Fainman and Prof. Lomakin) Liang Feng received his B.S. degree in Biophysics in 2002 and M.S. degree in Condensed Matter Physics in 2005 from Nanjing University, China. He joined UCSD in 2005 to pursue his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Profs. Yeshaiahu Fainman and Vitaliy Lomakin. His research interests include design, fabrication, and measurement of nanophotonic devices and their related bio-applications. E-mail: lifeng@ucsd.edu Office: EBU 1, room B509 Phone: (858) 534-7208 Personal webpage: http://emerald.ucsd.edu/Members/liang.html |

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Marco Lubarda, Ph.D. student and Research Assistant Marko Lubarda obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2006 and his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2007 from the same institution. He joined the group in 2009. His principle research interests include numerical and analytical investigation of magnetic phenomena, design and simulation of ultra-high density magnetic recording media, and study of spin transport dynamics in multilayered magnetic nanostructures. E-mail: malubard@ucsd.edu Office: EBU 1, room B509 Phone: (858) 534-7208 Personal webpage: http://cem01.ucsd.edu/~marco/ |
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Former Group Members |
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Boris Livshitz, Postdoctoral Scholar Boris Livshitz received the M.S. degree in EE/physics from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia, in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in EE from Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 2006. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computational Electromagnetics group of Prof. Lomakin in 2006-2009. His research interests cover two areas. The first area includes numerical Micromagnetics, recording process modeling, novel designs of multilayer and patterned media. The second area of interests includes fast techniques in computational Electromagnetics, algorithms for efficient analysis of electromagnetic fields in complex configurations. Currently (from November 2009), Boris Livshitz is with LSI Corporation (Minnesota), where he is a Senior Design Engineer responsible for the recording head — electronics interface. E-mail: livshitz@ece.ucsd.edu |

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Ruinan Chang, Ph.D. student and Research Assistant Ruinan Chang received his B.S. in electronics engineering in 2007, and M.S. in microelectronics in 2009 both from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He joined UCSD in Sep 2009 to pursue his Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Prof. Lomakin. His research interests are in the development of efficient integral equations methods for electromagnetic scattering problems with applications to complex optical and microwave structures. E-mail: r8chang@ucsd.edu Office: EBU 1, room B509 Phone: (858) 534-7208 Personal webpage: http://cem01.ucsd.edu/~marco/ |